School recognizes young achievers St. Stanislaus Kostka School at 61-17 Grand Avenue in Maspeth, celebrated its young achievers who completed a summer enrichment program that ran from June 25 to July 6. Children in grades K-2 were ...

Doe Fund comes to WoodsideOn July 9, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer joined community leaders and local residents in Woodside to announce that The Doe Fund would be coming to the community as part of a larger project to keep th...

Residents alarmed over increase at waste facilityElected Officials and residents held a rally Monday to protest a move by the state Department of Environmental Conservation DEC) regarding the removal of garbage on trains originating from the Wast...

From St. Adalbert to Harvard LawA local young man is headed off to Harvard Law School. Tim Fleming, who grew up in Elmhurst, is a 2004 graduate of St. Adalbert School, 2008 Graduate of Regis H.S. and a 2012 Graduate of Georgetown...

Moving Wall comes to QueensThe Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is a reminder to all Americans that freedom isn’t free. The names of 58,183 missing or dead killed in Vietnam are etched on two 246-foot black wal...

Cemetery gets ticket dismissedA Queens cemetery that was slapped with a fine for having standing water on its premises has had the penalty dismissed by a judge. Dan Austin, Sr., president of All Faiths Cemetery on Grand Avenue ...

Mazeau residents consider safety measuresResidents on Mazeau Street off the Long Island Expressway service road are brainstorming ways to make their accident-prone street safer. The Community Board 5 Transportation Committee held a meetin...

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By Aidan Lewis TUNIS (Reuters) - Islamic State has lost senior figures in an unsuccessful seven-month battle to defend its coastal stronghold in Libya, but there are already signs it will try to fight back through sleeper cells and desert brigades. Libyan officials say hundreds of Islamic State militants may have escaped before the start of the battle for Sirte in May or during its early stages. Islamic State is thought to be behind at least two dozen attacks or attempted attacks to the south and west of Sirte since August, said Heni Nsaibia of Menastream, a risk consultancy that monitors jihadist activity in the region.

Populist anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders was found guilty on Friday of discrimination against Moroccans, but acquitted of hate speech in a closely-watched trial ahead of next year's key elections. Wilders, whose Freedom Party (PVV) is eyeing an upset victory in the March 2017 polls, was charged with two counts arising out of comments he made in 2014 around local elections. "In this case, the most important question is whether Wilders has crossed a line.

Carter Page, a businessman previously described as a foreign-policy adviser to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, said on Friday he saw significant business opportunities in Russia. Page arrived in Moscow on Thursday and told Russia's RIA news agency he was visiting Russia to work on economic projects. The current nature of his relationship with Trump's team is unclear.